Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Dismaland (3)

Dismaland Bemusement Park which has been open since the middle of August in the derelict and neglected old swimming pool on Weston-super-Mare seafront, has been a great success. When my family first moved to Weston in the late 1960’s, the pool, built in 1937, was open and popular with tourists and residents alike. Young people […]

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House for sale

We have no immediate plans to move house; we have lived here for nearly fourteen years and like our house, and the village we live in very much. However every so often I see a property for sale and have a little dream about buying it… but that’s all it is a dream. If we did […]

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Ghost signs

We’ve all seen ghost signs, I’m sure… those faint traces on the side of old buildings of signs and advertisements, painted onto the bricks or plaster rather than posters being stuck up or metal and wooden notices physically attached to the wall. I came across these two in a side street in the pretty old town of […]

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